Cookie Policy

By using or accessing this Website, you are consenting to our use of Cookies as follows:

This policy helps to explain the occasions when and why cookies may be sent to visitors to the Website (referred to in this policy as "we", "us" or "our"). "Cookies" are text-only pieces of information that a website transfers to an individual's hard drive or other website-browsing equipment for record-keeping purposes. Cookies allow the Website to remember important information that will make your use of the site more convenient. A cookie will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has come, the "lifetime" of the cookie, and a randomly generated unique number or other value. Certain cookies will be used on the Site regardless of whether you are logged in to your account or not. Like most websites, we use cookies for a variety of purposes in order to improve your online experience, for analytics and for marketing, but specifically we use Cookies on the Website for the following purposes:

Analytical Purposes: We use Cookies to analyze user activity in order to improve the Website. For example, using Cookies we can look at aggregate patterns like the average number of searches that users perform. We can use such analysis to gain insights about how to improve the functionality and user experience of the Website.

Your Preferences: We use Cookies to store certain user preferences on our Website. For example, we may store the recent searches you have performed in a Cookie so that we can allow you to easily repeat those searches when you return to our Website.

Marketing: We use Cookies from third-party partners such as Google and Facebook for marketing purposes. These Cookies allow us to display Harcourts promotional material to you on other sites you visit across the Internet. Harcourts may also share information about your behaviour on the Website with third parties (including operators of third-party websites and/or social networking sites) in order to show you targeted advertisements and other content that has been customized for you.

Referral Tracking: We use Cookies to associate user activity with the third party website that referred the user to our Website, or to associate user activity that Harcourts referred to a third party website. These third party partner websites receive credit for the activity of users they refer to our Website, or give Harcourts credit for the activity of users referred to such third party websites. We do not share any personal information or information about individual user activities with these partner entities.

Session Cookies are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the Website.

Persistent Cookies remain in the cookie file of your browser for much longer (though how long will depend on the lifetime of the specific cookie). When we use session cookies to track the total number of visitors to our Website, this is done on an anonymous aggregate basis (as cookies do not in themselves carry any personal data). We may also employ cookies so that we remember your computer when it is used to return to the Website to help customize your Harcourts web experience. We may associate personal information with a cookie file in those instances. Use the options in your web browser if you do not wish to receive a cookie or if you wish to set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie. You can easily delete any cookies that have been installed in the cookie folder of your browser. See below instructions on how to enable and disable cookies for various browsers:

Please check the browser's cookie settings support pages to confirm the most up-to-date instructions.

Google Chrome

Click the settings icon on the browser toolbar (three stacked lines)

Select 'Settings'

Click 'Show advanced settings'

In the 'Privacy' section, click the 'Content settings' button

To enable cookies: In the 'Cookies' section, pick 'Allow local data to be set'. This will enable both first-party and third-party cookies. To allow only first-party cookies, pick 'Block third-party cookies and site data'

To disable cookies: In the 'Cookies' section, pick 'Block sites from setting any data'

Note there are various levels of cookie enablement and disablement in Chrome. For more information on other cookie settings offered in Chrome, refer to the following page from Google: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647

Safari on OSX

To enable cookies: In the 'Cookies and website data:' section, click 'Always Allow' or 'Allow from websites I visit' or 'Allow from current website only' depending on your preference

To disable cookies: In the 'Cookies and website data:' section, click 'Always Block'

Note there are various levels of cookie enablement and disablement in Safari. For more information on other cookie settings offered in Safari, refer to the following page from Apple: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH19214

Opera

From the main menu, select 'Settings' (or 'Preferences', when using OS X)

Click 'Advanced'

Under 'Cookies', select an option for handling cookies

To enable cookies: Check 'Accept' or 'Accept only from the sites I visit' depending on your preference

Microsoft Edge

Click on 'More' and choose 'Settings'

Under 'Advanced settings', select 'View advanced Settings'

Under 'Privacy and services - Cookies', choose the option you want.

'Block all cookies' blocks all cookies that websites try to save to your computer. 'Block only third party cookies' blocks third party cookies, which are saved by external web services, such as ads embedded on webpages you have navigated to.

If you disable all cookies, you may not be able to take advantage of all the features of this website. Consult your mobile device documentation for information on how to disable cookies.

We use AdWords and Remarketing Lists features of Google Analytics for Display Advertisers. Alongside Google we use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookie) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) together to inform, optimize, and serve ads based on your past visits to our Website. This means that vendors including Google will display our promotional material on other sites you visit across the Internet.

You may opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertisers including AdWords and opt-out of customized Google Display Network ads by visiting the Google Ads Preferences Manager. To provide website visitors more choice on how their data is collected by Google Analytics, Google has developed an Opt-out Browser add-on, which is available by visiting Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on, to enable you to opt-out of Google's programs.

Our marketing service providers. If you do not want our company and its marketing services providers to follow your usage of our services via the third party marketing services providers' cookies and Web beacons, and to learn more about these providers and their privacy policies, please visit their web site. Opting out of these services does not mean you will no longer receive online advertising. It does mean that the service from which you opted out will no longer deliver ads tailored to your Web preferences and usage patterns.

In all cases where third party cookies are used to track your behavior, you must refer to such third party's site to learn how to remove cookies for that third party specifically. Removing Harcourts cookies from your browser will not affect cookies placed by third parties.

Changes To Our Cookie Policy

From time to time, it may be necessary for us to change this cookie policy. We suggest that you check here periodically for any changes.